Journey: The Quest Begins (often just called Journey) by Infocom is a menu-driven interactive fiction / role-playing hybrid where you guide a four-person party—Bergon, Praxix, Esher, and Tag—on a Tolkien-flavored quest to find the reclusive wizard Astrix and save their blighted land from famine and disease. Instead of typing commands, you select actions from on-screen menus as the illustrated story unfolds, choosing how the group travels, who speaks or fights, and what tactics to use in encounters, with different decisions opening up alternate paths and endings. The tale is narrated in-character by Tag the merchant, emphasizing story, characterization, and multiple solutions over traditional “type the right verb” puzzles, and it’s notable as Infocom’s last original release and their only title in the short-lived “Infocom Roleplay Chronicles” line.